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泄气

xiè qì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 洩氣

泄气 (xiè qì) means "to leak (gas); to be discouraged; to despair". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 泄气 means

1. to leak (gas)
2. to be discouraged
3. to despair
4. (disparaging) pathetic
5. to vent one's anger
6. (of a tire) to be flat

The characters in 泄气

• 泄xiè(bound form) to leak out; to discharge; (fig.) to divulge
• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather

Sounds the same

Read xiè qì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 懈气to slacken off; to take it easy

Where 泄气 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiè–xīn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiè qì correctly.
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